Can USS VOYAGER separate from saucer section?

A friend of mine and I were discussing the new "STAR TREK INTO THE DARKNESS" movie and we started talking about how both Kirk's ship, Enterprise NCC-1701 (it was mention in episode 209, "The Apple" from TOS {"Kirk ordered Scotty to separate with saucer section and get off there if you have too"} and Picard's Enterprise NCC-1701-E could separate during an emergency if needed.

So he asked me can Voyager do the same? Please advise??....We all know that USS Voyager can land on a planet, but it was never mention about separation from the primary hull.

Saucer separation was never mentioned in the show, nor in any of the writeups. There's nothing to say that it CAN'T do so, however if it could it would more likely be a case of separating but being unable to re-attach. This was supposedly the case with other starships, as the Galaxy class was meant to be the first ship capable of separation, independent flight of both sections, and docking again without external assistance.

Saucer separation was never mentioned in the show, nor in any of the writeups. There's nothing to say that it CAN'T do so, however if it could it would more likely be a case of separating but being unable to re-attach. This was supposedly the case with other starships, as the Galaxy class was meant to be the first ship capable of separation, independent flight of both sections, and docking again without external assistance.

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I thought the main reason that we didn't see in the TOS episode "The Apple" was do to high cost involve, and it really wasn't required for the story anyway.

Voyager separates in The Eternal Tide - but that's after a substantial refit in Full Circle, equipping the ship with a slipstream dive and all the latest novelverse gizmos.

As for series-Voyager, there IS a battle bridge on the MSD diagram, but the writers never paid any heed to it (it has two warp cores, two computer cores and two navigational deflectors, but episodes of the show make it explicitly clear there is only one of each)

saucer separation is dumb. its silly and leaves you with two awkward bits of ship that look rubbish on their own.

i can see where it might work as an emergency thing on a constitution class, but on newer ships where the primary and secondary hulls are basically one big continuous structure it would look especially aesthetically unappealing

Viewers never got to see the Aeroshuttle in action due to the limitations of television and story lines. The craft was designed for atmospheric descent and short-term missions. When it was designed, production intended to re-use the Danube-class sets for the Aeroshuttle. Test shots were created depicting the launch of the Aeroshuttle from Voyager. The launch scene was never completed or used on screen because the producers did not want to trump the similar launch sequence of the captain's yachtCousteau from Star Trek: Insurrection.